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The person who asked the question can change their mind about the accepted answer at any time by clicking the check mark again, or clicking the check mark next to another answer. Moderators cannot ov …

Anyone with the close votes privilege can make up their own close reason by selecting "Other (add a comment explaining what is wrong)". The reason is also posted as a comment, and other users can then …

The best way to object to a question being marked as duplicate is to edit the question and explain clearly how the other question does not fit your situation. It's not sufficient to simply add a comme …

Discourage bad answers by downvoting them. Don't wait until they have an upvote left by someone else, as this is a net gain for the answerer and will only encourage them further. And if the answer is …

There's nothing new in any of those three answers, and so I've cleaned them up. It appears that one individual decided to post his answer to the question, which brought it back to the front page. Mos …

I deleted the "answer" because it was not an answer, but simply a "me too" restatement of the question. You should not post answers which don't actually answer the question, as these will be flagged …

You've had this thoroughly explained to you already, but just to reiterate: Among other things Server Fault is not for: End user technical support Mass web hosting questions Legal questions Given …

You can flag it for moderator attention. A moderator can then deal with the bounty and close the question.

I've been known to make mistakes before. It will probably even happen today. That said, I'm not going to discuss anything irrelevant to your migrated post, such as others' posts that you've linked to. …

Unfortunately moderators are no longer able to merge accounts. See the Help Center article: I accidentally created two accounts; how do I merge them? If you have two accounts that you would like …

The user in question approved another user's suggested edit to their own post. Anyone can approve or reject suggested edits to their own posts, regardless of reputation. This also happens to complete …

This user chose to "Post as a guest" rather than registering an account. The name shown is the name they gave at the time they posted. Such users haven't set a password, verified an email address, et …

The message you're seeing comes from a recently implemented question rate limiting system, which you can read more about in the Help Center. In particular, please note: If you haven't yet done so, …

In a case like this, you should bring the tags to meta so that we can do this: regexp has been merged into regex and synonymized. Enjoy!

I'd probably have to see the actual question to offer an opinion on its suitability. But in general, system administration best practices are (or should be) well known, not usually disputed, and thus …